Detecting Salient Regions Based on "What" and "Where" Pathways of Visual Systems

Inspired by the research of visual systems in neuroanatomy and psychology,a novel model for salient region detection based on what and where pathways in an image is proposed in this paper.The operation of the model can be divided into two stages:finding and shifting salient regions.Current salient region and potential targets of an image are firstly found and marked according to statistical feature saliency.Series of next salient regions are then detected by altering different current salient region and alterative attracting force computation.Experimental results with natural images demonstrate its effectiveness and robustness.